I'm off to try out Port Macquarie Foreshore Market tomorrow. With a 4am start and 5 hours of driving, I am both hopeful and apprehensive about how this venture will turn out. That's a lot of petrol to cover on top of the stall cost to make this worthwhile. Fingers crossed. And I expect to need to sleep for a day afterwards.
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Three new Meditative Studies for the week, plus the previous one to show them as a set.
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Where have I been? Quietly practising away, experimenting and perfecting the solutions to drawing these beans.
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Persistance pays off. A little bit, every day over a long time has a large effect. Like turning a ship, the effort at first looks insignificant. Over the long haul, a small change in direction, a sustained focus on what you want to achieve, makes a gaping difference.
A week of drawing shells over and over and over paid off yesterday and today.
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What to do when you fall off the horse? Get right back on of course. Persistance will get you a long way to where you want to go.
So you may have noticed a lapse of a few days in this daily drawing project. I sure felt it. As time consuming as this daily project is, it is also incredibly soothing and I could feel the agitation building up as I missed this regular slow-looking time.
I'm back in the saddle again. This time a little wiser. It seems I need more structure. A daily time to do the daily drawing session. Can do. Alarms set. Mind primed. Today went well.
The point of making mistakes is to learn from them.
All the currently available Meditative Studies are here, including this one from today:
Black ink pen on white paper 5x7" and matted ready to frame. Fits the commonly available standard
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| Meditative Studies now all in one place at www.wherefishsing.com/meditativestudies |
In the interest of simplicity, you can now go to one place to find all the currently available Meditative Studies.
All drawings are currently black ink pen on white paper 5x7" and matted ready to frame. Fits the commonly available standard
size 8x10" frame. $20 each, including postage within Australia. OS
airmail postage is $5 for 1, $8 for 2, $11 for 3+.
At the moment this links to a FB photo album. This may change as I experiment with how best to make these available, but the address www.wherefishsing.com/meditativestudies will remain the same. Comment SOLD on the
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The drawing session today went well, in a learning sort of a way and I'm quietly hopeful I'll have a new meditative study to show you tomorrow or the next day.
Another day of repetitive drawing, still working on the same few problems and getting close to resolving them all.
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Meditative Studies day #13 - little by little and some rain
Monday, September 17, 2012 |
| Our sleeping water-loving visitor, heralding rain. |
A continuation of my theme from yesterday of focusing in on just one thing and getting it right. Another drawing session of repetition. And little by little I can see the results. One step at a time I am banishing errors in my drawings of these pesky shells and figuring out better ways to depict them.
It's a good feeling to see progress between the beginning and end of a session.
Speaking of progress, after two months of dryness, we finally had rain. While my initial tree change was some six years ago now, I have never before lived in a house relying only on tank water. Given that we are in one of the highest rainfall areas of Australia, averaging several metres annually, I was not at all worried. But after two months our rather little water tank was getting low and we switched to all the old Victorian drought-era water saving measures we had to use these past few years. Buckets everywhere to catch all the good unused water. Reduced flushing. Short washing machine cycles.
It's been lovely to see & smell rain again and we had a water-loving visitor as a bonus.
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| Water eventually wears through rock. |
While watching a documentary on the history of tai chi, there was a section on the Wudang style taught in a monastery in remote mountains where battalions of students are instructed to spend their days endlessly repeating the same few movements until mastery is achieved. Only then is a student allowed to move on to the next move. This reminds me of a Chinese ink painting class I attended, where we spent large chunks of time practising the same basic brushstrokes over and over again, until we (hopefully!) had gotten the hang of them. And it reminds me of learning to write, when as kids we had to endlessly copy letters of the alphabet again and again until we had it right.
There is something to be said for focusing on one task until you have mastered it.
And so I found myself late on Sunday night, tired and knowing that any daily drawing I did would not be something worth putting out in public. The rationalisations to just give it a skip were strong. There are some shells I have been drawing recently that refuse to work. One of them is tricky, the others just require a deftness and delicacy to look compelling that I haven't managed all together in the one drawing.
Given that whatever I was going to draw was unlikely to be great, I devoted the drawing session to endless repetitions of the same shells, and shall continue to do so until they I am satisfied with them.
Listening to an Eckhart Tolle talk last night while nibbling my way through an enormous pile of sewing, I was reminded to really quiet the mind and be still, and how much this helps while drawing.
I discovered a hedge of jasmine just up the road. The scent at the moment is heavenly. This drawing session began with eyes closed, revelling in the perfume.
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